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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
28 days ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Provide ability to expand tables within PDF Report

Provide the ability to expand on the tables embedded in the PDF report. Specifically for tables that have subtotals configured
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Enable a mobile application to extend monitoring and observability functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their applications and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
3 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted